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An‘early day motion1 (EDM 908) has been tabled in parliament which opposes the conclusions of the science and technology committee report on the evidence for homeopathy. After two weeks it has been signed by an amazing 55 MPs

Dimsore is my local moron. He's well known for jumping on every bandwagon just to get his name known. I wouldn't put it past him to sign EDMs both supporting and opposing the report.

Before they clamped down on expenses, he spent the largest amount by far of any MP -- about £20,000 -- on postage. He did this by writing personally to every constituent whose name appeared anywhere in connection with any issue. I got drawn into a long correspondence with him just because I had signed a local petition about something.

When I wanted him to do something concrete though -- in this case stopping the local fuzz college from playing helicopters by circling over my area all night -- all I got was useless waffle.

He is/was chairman of the human rights committee, yet he supports detaining people for long periods without trial. Given the area, needless to say he has nothing helpful to say about human rights in the Middle East.

Be skeptical of the things you believe are false, but be very skeptical of the things you believe are true.

My local MP does not support homeopathy on the NHS and I have recently recieved a reply from my MSP (I had written to ask what the scottish parliament intended to do in light of the committee findings). She has passed my question to Nicola Sturgeon and I await her reply with interest. last time I asked her her position on woo on the NHS she waffled on about "choices".

"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

There is presently no accepted scientific theory of how the high-dilutions involved in homeopathy might carry any physical effect, let alone a therapeutic effect. Several lines of enquiry have been followed over the years with little success. There is currently a great need for a testable theory of high-dilutions, such a theory might be that of Quantum Coherence Domains (QCDs).

Giuliano Preparata (1942-2000), an Italian theoretical physicist at the university of Milan, hypothesised the presence of QCDs in room temperature condense matter. QCDs emerged out of Preparata’s extension of Quantum Electro-Dynamics to include interactions with external Electromagnetic (EM) fields. In the case of water these hypothesised QCDs would be small volumes of water each one acting as a single quantumly coherent entity.

These QCDs have interesting properties in terms of a potential explanation of the phenomena linked to high-dilutions. These QCDs are predicted to capture the EM fields present at the time of their creation. This process could, in principle, capture the specific EM signature of any given substance. The serial dilution/succussion process involved in homeopathy could then be seen as a way of propagating QCDs around a sample (through succussions or, equivalently, vortexing) and eventually removing all trace of the original substance (through dilutions).

QCDs are currently being investigated as a potential explanation of a number of anomalous behaviours reported in experiments investigating solvation effects. In the context of high-dilutions a number of experiments have already reported some effects, although not in a fully reproducible way.

I will present an overview of the theory of QCDs and how, when applied to homeopathy, it offers a framework through which many of the observed phenomena can be investigated and potentially explained.

There is presently no accepted scientific theory of how the high-dilutions involved in homeopathy might carry any physical effect, let alone a therapeutic effect. Several lines of enquiry have been followed over the years with little success. There is currently a great need for a testable theory of high-dilutions, such a theory might be that of Quantum Coherence Domains (QCDs).

Giuliano Preparata (1942-2000), an Italian theoretical physicist at the university of Milan, hypothesised the presence of QCDs in room temperature condense matter. QCDs emerged out of Preparata’s extension of Quantum Electro-Dynamics to include interactions with external Electromagnetic (EM) fields. In the case of water these hypothesised QCDs would be small volumes of water each one acting as a single quantumly coherent entity.

These QCDs have interesting properties in terms of a potential explanation of the phenomena linked to high-dilutions. These QCDs are predicted to capture the EM fields present at the time of their creation. This process could, in principle, capture the specific EM signature of any given substance. The serial dilution/succussion process involved in homeopathy could then be seen as a way of propagating QCDs around a sample (through succussions or, equivalently, vortexing) and eventually removing all trace of the original substance (through dilutions).

QCDs are currently being investigated as a potential explanation of a number of anomalous behaviours reported in experiments investigating solvation effects. In the context of high-dilutions a number of experiments have already reported some effects, although not in a fully reproducible way.

I will present an overview of the theory of QCDs and how, when applied to homeopathy, it offers a framework through which many of the observed phenomena can be investigated and potentially explained.

I really hope you get to ask how a QCD manages to remain coherent when the water has been dropped on sugar and evaporated, so the quanta of water have ceased to exist due to the phase change. Should sugar miraculously have memory it would be interesting to see how it identifies which EM field to resonate with - the QCD from the water or the EM field from the Earth's magnetic field, light, nearby radio transmitters, etc.

I won't write this all off as hogwash without evidence to disprove it, but it sounds highly implausible.

Paolo wrote:
I really hope you get to ask how a QCD manages to remain coherent when the water has been dropped on sugar and evaporated, so the quanta of water have ceased to exist due to the phase change.

That would be an excellent question. However, I'll probably be keeping my head down rather than blowing my cover asking intelligent questions.

Lorikeet wrote:Here is a good list of the reasons why homeopathy works. It's even been translated into Spanish, apparently, because it's so accurate . . .

Brilliant!

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?